You know how spiders crawl into your mouth while you sleep? Well…

And nothing of value was lost

Give it a century, and if it survives, it’ll be like Mormonism (which was obviously a scam when Smith started it, but is now solidly respectable). A millennium or two, and it’s as unimpeachable as Christianity.

Isn’t he something like third from the top of the church hierarchy? It probably wouldn’t be him so much escaping it as spitting off, setting up his own Reformed Temple of Thetan Science or whatever and taking 2/3 of the church membership with him.

Do Hong Kong universities have mandatory units in Marxism/Xi Jinping Thought as they do on the mainland?

New Pocket: now with blockchain and AI.

One can imagine Vance as the type of person who spends a lot of time thinking about how other people have sex

I’d say his writings were more novel, and interesting, than Rowling’s. He overused fancy words, and when you stripped away the ornament, his stories ran on xenophobia and catastrophising (“what if those weird-looking foreigners practice human sacrifice, or are really not humans but fish-monsters?”), but he could write a compellingly eerie story. (Some of them have, of course, aged worse than others.) Rowling, meanwhile, plots like a LLM trained on the past century of British children’s literature.

To Lovecraft, the sinister other was a continuum stretching from people of non-WASP stock all the way to ancient chaos gods at the core of a vast, pitiless universe

Goths are goths, but them wearing identical logo T-shirts looks like some kind of cult.

Make sure you don’t have this app installed if passing through US Immigration.

Your enemy’s enemy isn’t necessarily your friend

The executions will continue until competence improves

And vajazzling applied to the buttocks could be called bumbling.

What was he doing in a NATO country in the first place? Sounds like the authorities were asleep at the wheel.

We need to talk about the straights and their choice of footwear

Is 6% a cited estimate of the number of psychopaths in a population?

Those Canadian fentanyl barrels won’t stand a chance

The local postal service will slap a €10 handling charge on top of that

There are almost certainly gacha capsule machines in Japan containing plastic figurines of sushi-bug characters that look like this guy, along with tuna and tamagoyaki variants. Maybe also an inari hermit crab or something.